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1) Funny story
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakesidehometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter's actual love story, the one that ends with him dumping Daphne before their wedding to...
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Language
English
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"The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of comprise which operate at the heart of modern marriages. In...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"When two wealthy white landowners are found dead, the whole country immediately thinks it must be Jerome Washington, the hired help, who killed them. He was standing over the bodies when the police responded to an anonymous call and the only one on the property at the time of death. As far as the state is concerned, it's an open and shut case. Jack Lee, born and raised in Freeman County, knows that every man deserves a solid defense and agrees to...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Get ready for another twisty domestic thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of THE SOULMATE. From the outside, Alicia, Jessica and Norah might seem like ordinary women you'd meet on the street any day of the week. Sure, Jessica has a little OCD and Norah has some anger issues. And Alicia has low self-esteem that manifests itself in surprising ways. But these three have a bond that no one can fully understand. It's a bond that takes...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st William Morrow pbk. ed.
Language
English
Description
When a number of leading scientists disappear without a trace, concern grows within the international intelligence community. And the one woman who appears to hold the key to the mystery is dying from injuries sustained in a plane crash. Meanwhile, in a Casablanca hotel room, Hilary Craven prepares to take her own life. But her suicide attempt is about to be interrupted by a man who will offer her an altogether more thrilling way to die. . . . This...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In in 1930s Los Angeles Chinatown, the Chow sisters, May, Gemma, and Peony, suspect foul play in the death of Chinatown star Lulu Wong and take it upon themselves to solve the murder, revealing a conspiracy that threatens their Chinatown neighborhood.
8) Towards zero
Author
Series
Superintendent Battle mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
What is the connection among a failed suicide attempt, a wrongful accusation of theft against a schoolgirl, and the romantic life of a famous tennis player? To the casual observer, apparently nothing. But when a house party gathers at Gull's Point, the seaside home of an elderly widow, earlier events come to a dramatic head. As Superintendent Battle discovers, it is all part of a carefully laid plan-for murder.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Told in rhyme, Moby Shinobi tries to put his ninja skills to work helping out at the pet shop, but as usual his efforts result in complete chaos--until he redeems himself by finding the missing python.
10) The familiar
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Language
English
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"In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position. What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when...
11) Murder is easy
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Harper pbk. [ed.].
Language
English
Description
"Luke Fitzwilliam does not believe Miss Pinkerton's wild allegation that a multiple murderer is at work in the quiet English village of Wychwood and that her local doctor is next in line. But within hours, Miss Pinkerton has been killed in a hit-and-run car accident. Mere coincidence? Luke is inclined to think so--until he reads in the Times of the unexpected demise of Wychwood's Dr. Humbleby..."--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2012, c1925
Edition
1st William Morrow pbk. ed.
Language
English
Description
A beautiful woman who once belonged to a ring of international jewel thieves makes known to her former associates the location of certain gems, thereby triggering a number of people to recover them at any cost.
15) Air ready
Author
Series
Caught dead in Wyoming volume 9
Publisher
Patricia McLinn
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Love and death decisionsWill murder take a break while Elizabeth Margaret Danniher sorts the future of KWMT-TV and her personal life?Don’t count on it.A young woman comes to Elizabeth at KWMT to solve a kind of theft Elizabeth has never encountered before. That’s challenge enough, with the TV station for sale and the top candidate to buy it known for eliminating news departments. But Elizabeth also senses there something more bothering Hailey...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
The Santos Vista neighborhood of San Antonio, Texas, is all Ander Mart���inez has ever known. His family's taquer�ia inspired them as a muralist, and, as they get ready to leave for art school, it's all of these things that make them question if they are ready to leave the neighborhood behind. When Ander meets Santiago L�opez Alvarado, the hot new waiter, falling for each other becomes as natural as breathing. When ICE agents come for Santi,...
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Series
Publisher
MTV Entertainment Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First MTV Books/Atria paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
"It's the summer after junior year of college, and Grace is looking forward to going to LA with her boyfriend, Josh. When he unexpectedly dumps her, she's left with a hole in her heart and in her summer schedule. Her (very wealthy) best friend, Tiff, along with their new friend, Camille, a French foreign exchange student, come to the rescue and whisk her away to a beach house in Cancun for a week of R&R. Little do Tiff and Camille know, though, that's...
Author
Series
Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 4
Publisher
Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Little Simon hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Desmond and Andres face a zombie during a school field trip to the zoo.
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Series
Kings of Avalier volume 2
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The second book in the addictive Kings of Avalier series by USA Today bestselling author Leia Stone sweeps readers away in a fantasy romance full of forbidden love and deadly magic. In an effort to save her sick aunt, nineteen-year-old Kailani took out a loan she knew she would never be able to repay. Now, the only way she has any chance of paying it back is if she accepts a job as the Elf King's personal assistant. Rather than fulfilling her dream...
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